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80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 4

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ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 18/06/2020 23:05

Put up a line or two from a song for people to guess.

For example:

Is there anybody out there trying to get through?
My eyes are so cloudy I cant see you

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CarnageAtTheGardenCentre · 19/06/2020 21:31

@NeedToKnow101, Ever fallen in love you shouldn’t have fallen in love with - Buzzcocks

NeedToKnow101 · 19/06/2020 21:34

Yeah Carnage - best song ever! (Apart from all the other best songs!)

Fleamaker123 · 19/06/2020 21:36

Yes Escape @SingingBabooshkaBadly

I always thought 'half a brain' was a misheard lyric Grin

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ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 19/06/2020 21:36

I saw the buzzcocks! They were fab!!!!!

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Iggi999 · 19/06/2020 21:37

Well done Honey

ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 19/06/2020 21:38

His little hand is on my heart
He's got me where it hurts me

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Honeyroar · 19/06/2020 21:38

Aww - Buzzcocks Ever Fallen in Love?
(or Fine Young Canibals)

ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 19/06/2020 21:40

I was thinking 'bout a woman who might have loved me
I never knew

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ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 19/06/2020 21:41

Hangin' around
Nothin' to do but frown

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ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 19/06/2020 21:43

And the moon and the stars
Were the gifts you gave

Beautiful lyrics!

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Iggi999 · 19/06/2020 21:43

@ProseccoBubbleFantasies

Hangin' around Nothin' to do but frown
Only one I know - rainy days and Mondays, the carpenters (Very rainy here today)
SingingBabooshkaBadly · 19/06/2020 21:45

@Fleamaker123

Yes Escape *@SingingBabooshkaBadly*

I always thought 'half a brain' was a misheard lyric Grin

That whole song is weird. He’s a bit bored. He answers a personal ad. They meet up. The woman turns out to be his OH. They both have a good laugh about it Confused
ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 19/06/2020 21:45

But it's friday, Iggi!!!!!

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ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 19/06/2020 21:46

That sounds like the pina colada song, Babooshka

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Honeyroar · 19/06/2020 21:49

The moon and the stars one is The First Time Ever I saw your Face - Roberta Flack?

Honeyroar · 19/06/2020 21:55

Nobody has got mine. An early 90s one to even it up tonight!

I will not fail or falter I shall succeed
My perception is altered I do believe
Faith is so strong now, nothing shall bar my way
Firm conviction is no fiction, this is my day
I can...(chorus and title)

Willow2017 · 19/06/2020 21:56

@ProseccoBubbleFantasies

His little hand is on my heart He's got me where it hurts me
The Infant Kiss Kate Bush
ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 19/06/2020 22:15

Bloody hell, Willow. I keep trying to put up kate Bush lyrics for Babooshka to get 😂

Yes Honey. Gorgeous song. Utterly beautiful

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Fleamaker123 · 19/06/2020 22:15

@SingingBabooshkaBadly
That whole song is weird. He’s a bit bored. He answers a personal ad. They meet up. The woman turns out to be his OH. They both have a good laugh about it confused

Yes, it went over my head at the time, but it's very 70's!

Willow2017 · 19/06/2020 22:20

@ProseccoBubbleFantasies

Bloody hell, Willow. I keep trying to put up kate Bush lyrics for Babooshka to get 😂

Yes Honey. Gorgeous song. Utterly beautiful

I listened to her 1st 4 albums endlessly🤣 I got out of the way of spending all my money on albums for a while but got other stuff later.
ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 19/06/2020 22:34

I love her. Saw her when she performed a few years ago. Incredible!!!!

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Willow2017 · 19/06/2020 22:38

Jealous! Who Me?

ProseccoBubbleFantasies · 19/06/2020 22:46

We've come together in the very same room

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SingingBabooshkaBadly · 19/06/2020 22:46

@ProseccoBubbleFantasies

That sounds like the pina colada song, Babooshka
@ProseccoBubbleFantasies, yup, the Pina Colada is Escape.

Sorry I keep missing the Kate Bush ones!

SingingBabooshkaBadly · 19/06/2020 22:48

@ProseccoBubbleFantasies

I love her. Saw her when she performed a few years ago. Incredible!!!!
I saw her too @ProseccoBubbleFantasies - she was amazing wasn’t she?